Great Ways to Teach Recycling!

This blog is for elementary teachers who need some great ideas for teaching students about recycling and helping our environment. We posted videos to show students, and many links to education websites that are good resources for teachers.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Starting in the classroom

What type of paper can my school recycle?



SBooklets
Books - hard and soft cover

Boxes - for office supplies
Boxes - cereal, shoe, cracker, pasta, etc

Brochures
Calendars - wall type
Cardboard - corrugated & paperboard
Catalogs
Clasp envelopes
Colored paper
Cover and card stock, index cards
Envelopes -with plastic windows or labels
File folders
Glossy paper
Hanging file folders

Letters

Mail -including junk mail
Magazines
Newspaper
Office and copy paper - white or colored
Packing paper
Paper - lined, white or colored
Paper - fax
Pamphlets

Phone books
Photocopies
Shredding paper - loose or paper bags
Stationery -white or colored

Writing tablets

1 comment:

  1. This is a list that teachers can not only use themselves, but teach their students to get into a daily habit of not wasting recyclable goods.

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